History

History
Werewolf on boards.ie was born when Jayop proposed the idea on the After Hours forum on 18th August 2016. He got a good few players to sign up for the first game, many of which became frequent players throughout the game's history.

The first game was started in After Hours on 21st August 2016, but due to problems with non-players posting on the thread, which was against the game rules, but not against the forum rules, therefore could not be prevented, the game was moved to the Tabletop & Board Gaming Arena. This worked well as a temporary home for the first few games, but as the game popularity grew, it was decided that it was unfair on the existing posters to that forum to take it over, and that having our own forum would be preferable.

andy125 got the ball rolling on 11th September 2016 with formally requesting a dedicated forum for Werewolf. The request got the requisite number of approvals and was approved on the 10th October 2016.

The Forum Games forum has since grown to include other games including Codenames and D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) which have also proved very popular among both Werewolf players and non-Werewolf players. More recently, the Codenames Forum has been renamed to Other Forum Games to accomodate games such as Sheep, Peehs, Heeps, Walrus and various others. These were introduced to the forum by Rikand and are now being run by a multitude of players.

Off-site webpages, necessary for wolves and rolled players initially used a quicktopic site. But as the games grew more popular and more complex, a dedicated site was created in a changeofplangames forum provided by Maximus Alexander.

On the 14th April 2017, the first game played entirely on changeofplangames was started by Tigger. This was also the first use of players playing under anonymous names.

The Marvel & DC game, started on 25th June 2017 was the first anon game played on boards.ie using dedicated accounts set up by the Forum Games mods specifically for this purpose. Since then, games have alternated between anon and non-anon at the discretion of the game mods.

The games continue to attract new players, and has also built a solid community where real-life meetups have been organised.